COVID-19 The White House is launching a smear campaign against Dr. Fauci for contradicting Trump Thom Dunn

politics Donald Trump bashes his most ardent followers — the evangelicals — for their "great disloyalty" Carla Sinclair

red wave mirages Trump-picked candidate blames GOP "cowards" for his miserable failure Carla Sinclair

ESP Is Precognition Real? Mitch Horowitz

fascists GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik lies again: "Pelosi bears responsibility for the tragedy that occurred on January 6" Mark Frauenfelder

dupe Judge tosses Roy Moore's $95M lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen Mark Frauenfelder

Capitol insurrection US Capitol Police officer directed field units to ignore pro-Trump rioters on Jan 6, reveals House investigation Mark Frauenfelder

COVID-19 Trump's failures with first Wuhan evacuees "increased the risk of infection transmission to American public," federal watchdog concludes Xeni Jardin

climate change The United States is the #1 worst G20 nation when it comes to climate change Thom Dunn

trump Trump calls mail-in ballots "corrupt" but reiterates that it's fine when he does it Thom Dunn

guns Gun Violence Isn't a Problem — it's actually 5 Problems, with Different Solutions Thom Dunn

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

climate New Zealand's domestic spies, obsessed with illegally surveilling environmental activists, missed a heavily armed right-wing terrorist Cory Doctorow

picks 'He has learned nothing,' Zuckerberg considers crowdsourcing news fact-checks for Facebook Xeni Jardin

infosec Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Bernie Sanders on fighting global authoritarianism Cory Doctorow

fake news This week's tabloids: They're not lies. They're just Trumpian thinking Peter Sheridan

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

shithole presidency How Michelle Wolf blasted open the fictions of journalism in the age of Trump Mark Frauenfelder